“Thirty years ago, aging research was not sexy,” says Dr. Serge Gauthier. He is speaking to Medicine Focus from a cozy office in the Victorian house, on the green lawns of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Verdun, that is home to the McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
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Can the University make it easier for medical students and residents to exercise? Without a doubt, says Stella Miller, Postgraduate Medical Education Wellness Consultant, the WELL Office, who, with colleague, Louise Lockhart, Nurse, Student Health Services (pictured) is launching Spin Bike Gardens, a new network of exercise bike stations in accessible locations on campus.
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“Many people at McGill don’t know what our scientific community is doing in stem cell research,” says Dr. Michel Tremblay, James McGill Professor and Jeanne and J.-Louis Lévesque Chair in Cancer Research, from his office at the Goodman Cancer Research Centre. Linda Peltier, PhD (Exp. Med.)’14, is trying to change that.
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When the Medicine Class of 2017 arrived for Orientation three years ago, they learned that they were to be pioneers: the first cohort to experience the new MDCM curriculum, Patient at heart, Science in hand, the result of one of the most significant curricular reviews in the Faculty’s history. Throughout, the Class has proposed ways to make the new program—which has received an outpouring of support from our MDCM alumni—even stronger.
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“This is going to be a good food weekend fo sho,” wrote Jason Chan, BSc, MDCM’11, on Instagram in October. “We are in Montreal for Homecoming weekend and hitting up all our favorite places. #kazu #porkbowl #chirachi #montreal #mcgillalumni.”
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